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Men Leave Tourney, Women Will Show Friday, June 22, 1973--Daily Messenger, Canandaigua, N.Y.--Page 7 By WILLIAM F. WRIGHT LONDON (GPU Nearly 70 top male tennis stars pulled out of Wimbledon today, virtually turning over next week's tournament'to the girls. Sixty-seven members of the Association of Tennis professionals (ATP) handed withdrawal forms to Wimbledon Referee Capt. Mike Gibson Friday morning, formalizing their boycott of the world's premier tennis championship over Yugoslavia's suspension of ilstopstar.NikkiPilic. The game's top women players said they will appear on schedule, despite the formation Thursday night of a 65- member professional association similar to the men's ATP.

Trie tournament itself was not in danger. The strawberries and cream traditional at the All-England Lawn Tennis club's Wimbledon. grounds were ordered and; ready. The famed center court had a newly laid turf. But withdrawal of the 67 men including 14 of the 16 original seeds in the men's singles championship certainly less-' ened the quality of the tournament's men's competition.

Wimbledon officials immediately prepared a new seeding list for the men's portion of the tournament with those players still competing. They included last year's runnerup, Hie Nastase of Romania, Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia, Alex Metreveli of Russia and the American Jimmy Connors of Belleville, 111. But reigning champion Stan Smith of Sea Pines, S.C., Italy's Adriano Pan at a and Manuel Orantes of Sapin were among those submitting withdrawal forms. The war of Wimbledon began when Pilic was suspended by the Yugoslav tennis federation for not showing up to play in the Davis Cup competition against New Zealand. ATP members said if Pilic could not play at Wimbledon they would not.

Efforts to call an armistice went into the early hours of Friday morning. The British government's minister for sport, Eldon Griffiths, intervened twice in meetings with ATP and the opposing side, the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF). TheATP'sexecutivecommit- tee met for five hours until 3 a.m. today. Then ATP President Cliff Drysdale said all hopes of a solution were gone.

He said the boycott of the game's leading men would go on and "the position is now final and irrevocable." Nastase and others obeyed orders from their national tennis associations to ignore the ATP boycott and play on. -Others disregarded orders from home. "We had hoped that possibly some compromise might be reached," Drysdale said after his ATP players met again. "We got a phone call during the meeting saying that this was not the case." America's Billie Jean King four-time Wimbledon winner, emerged Thursday night as spokeswoman for the game's top women professionals and said the girls, at least, would play. Fezler, Miller Share American AKRON, Ohio (UPI) -Forrest Fezler becomes a medic in the California National in a few weeks, but when he goes off the PGA tour he wants to leave "with a good feeling." Fezler, 23, of Indian Wells, fired a Ihree-under-par 67 Thursday in the first of American' Golf him a share of the lead with new U.S.

Open champion Johnny Miller. "I'd like to play well the rest of this week and next week," Fezler said, "So I'll have a good feeling when I go home." Arnold Palmer, who said he "hit the ball a little more solidly" and lias felt "a little more relaxed with the putter in my hands" the last couple of weeks, shot a G8 to be one of four players one stroke behind the leaders in the race for the 532,000 first prize. Joining Palmer with 68's were Jim Wiechers, Tom Kite, and J. C. Snead, who eagled the par-5 second hole with a four- wood shot, 12-fcet from the pin.

"I guess as far as-holes-in- one go," Miller said, "it was as good as any I've seen. I hit it slraight, it kicked straight and rolled straight." Jack Nicklaus heads a group of seven with one-under-par 69's. The group also includes Chuck Thorpe, Tom Shaw, Kermit Xarley, Lou Graham, Dave Eichelberger and Dick Lotz. Nicklaus had a chance to tie for the lead after getting birdies on the 14th, 15th and IGlh holes, but instead picked Pitching Effort Negated By United Press International A good pitching effort by Steve Burr was negated by Ihrce unearned runs Thursday night as he was beaten 3-2 by the Waterbury Dodgers. The Bristol Red Sox pitcher went all the way, allowing only four hits and two walks while striking out nine, and had a 2-1 lead going into the seventh inning.

But, a throwing error by Ken Blackwell allowed one run to score and advanced another runner to third where he scored on a sacrifice fly. Winning pitcher Bernie Beckman (6-4) had a good night six hits and striking out eight. Tom Robson led Pittsfield to a 10-3 win over Quebec City. Robson had a three-run homer and knocked in another run with a single. Lou Beasley, Vernon Wilkins and Andy Hancock each had two RBIs for the winning team.

In the only other Eastern League game, Three Rivers edged West Haven 2-1. up a bogey five on the 18th when he drove into the rough and hit his second shot into the sand. Tom Weiskopf finished with a four-over-par 74. "Obviously, I wasn't too inspired today," said Weiskopf. "I just played players we re.

at even-par 70 after the first round, including Bruce Crampton, Bob Goalby and Al Geibergcr, while defending champion Bert Yancey headed another 12 players bunched at 71. Football On Line LUBBOCK, Tex. (UPI) -The 1973 football season opens Saturday night with the talent- loaded West rated a slight favorite over the East in the I3th annual Coaches All- America game. Kickoff is set for 8:30 p.m. (EDT) on the campus of Texas Tech University, with a capacity crowd of 45,000 expected and a national television audience watching.

Headlining the talented West will he quarterback Dan Fouts of Oregon, lailback Greg Pruitt of Oklahoma, fullback Sam Cunningham of Southern Cal and flanker Steve Holden of Arizona State. Southern Cal Coach John McKay will head the West forces, also calling upon the services of quarterback Ty Paine of Washington State, tailback-fullback Pete Vanvalkenburg of Brigham Young, tailback Terry Metcalf of Long Beach State and flanker Joe Wylic of Oklahoma. The East, under Auburn's Snug Jordan, will answer with quarterbacks Terry Davis of Alabama and Don Strock of Virginia Tech, fullbacks Chuck Foreman of Miami and Ron Bell of Illinois State and running backs Otis Armstrong of Purdue. The East flankers include Ollie Smith of Tennessee Stale and David Knight of William and Mary. Change of pace Secretariat--a horse that commands Conservation Comments HyPAUL M.KELSEY New York State Regional Conservation Educator By Phil EWerkin Ht has appeared on the cover of Time and Newsweek.

If he walked down Broadway, eyes would snap and mouths pop open. Miles of film record his every public appearance. And he eats like a horse. Henry Kissinger, perhaps? Or maybe Richard Nixon or one of the Watergate panel? Wrong. He's a big chestnut- brown colt named Secretariat, who has won horse racing's triple crown meaning the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes.

There have been other great horses before Mm, of course. Who could ever forget Man o' War, Count Fleet, and Citation. But they merely won." Secretariat commands. With a stride as long as a development house, he creates his own special brand of excitement. He could probably run at Indianapolis and not be embarrassed.

Secretariat has the kind of muscular build which allows horsemen to identify him a furlong away. f- I- The day he won the Belmont his closest rival was 31 lengths in He appears to be a horse with four-wheel drive as powerfully balanced on his rear legs as he is on his front legs. In the Kentucky Derby, he swept around the field, thus proving his versatility. In the Preakness, it was evident that no other horse would stay with him after the first turn. And in the Belmont he simply exploded, cutting two and three-fifth seconds off the track record or the equivalent of 13 lengths.

Despite reports that this is an easy horse to handle, that he is even tempered and truly loves to run, there must be more than a superficial relationship between a Jockey and the horse he rides. They must learn to know and respect each other. Ron Turcotte, who was up on Secretariat as each jewel of rac- The Wonder Horse ing's Triple Crown fell neatly into place, summed it up nicely when he said: "'I don't try to adjust that kind of horse to me; I make it a point to adjust me to that horse." Training Secretariat is the responsibility of Lucien Laurin, a talented, patient man who doesn't try to rush things. Over (he yeara Laurin has probably had as many slow horses as fast but generally most of them improved under his methods. It was Lucien who decided that Secretariat, because of his huge size, would need extra long morning workouts to hold his edge and then made sure that he got them.

This probably accounts for the way this horse can deliver short bursts of dazzling speed with seemingly no real effort. According to Newsweek, the magnitude of the Triple Crown can scarcely be overstated. Propelling his body on fragile legs that are thinner than a human's, a three-year old horse is asked to win three long races over a five-week period against the finest apposition of his generation proving not only his superiority but his soundness. And he must do it in a nerve- racking glass-house atmosphere in which every move by his owner, trainer or jockey is second guessed, adding to the likelihood of some infinitesimal error that might cost the horse the crown. In the 25 years since Citation accomplished the sweep of the Derby, Preakness, and Belmont in 1948, half a dozen horses have won the first two, only to falter heartbreakingly in the Belmont.

It is a shame that this super horse should have had to perform his excellence in an atmosphere of conflicting thought, where gambling and corruption often stroll hand-in-hand. But history has included wars, floods, politics, and crime on its front page before. The thing to remember about Secretariat is his great natural beauty, stamina, and grace. In time he probaWy should be bronzed, like baby shoes. Nature's Imbalance It must have been in 1967 that I first took a group of sixth graders from Brighton McKinley in Syracuse to Three Rivers Wildlife Management Area.

Our visit occurred almost simultaneously with the release of a report to the Onondaga County Board of Supervisors in which a firm of consulting engineers made recommendations for future waste disposal sites in the County. Twenty-nine of the 33 sites recommended were wetlands. Talking with students about the value of wetlands, it became apparent their ideas were typical of those of the usual adult urban resident, lhat these areas were of little or no value and that their ultimate use was a place to put junk and garbage from the city. To one whose ideas of a swamp are produced an abundant supply of wiggly wildlife to whet the children's enthusiasm and curiosity. This year something went wrong.

1 stepped out into the muddy fringe of aquatic plants and dipped my net down among their stems, fully expectingjlo triumphantly come up with several i kinds of "bugs." Nothing. After several minutes of scooping with the net all I had to show were two adult water beetles. The students were anxious to find their own bugs, so I turned them loose, and did some more exploring on my part to see if I could find any clues to what had happened. Practically everything that 1 found consisted of adult insects which could have flown in from some other pond. This is what i with mosquHoes and one would expect in anew pond, snakes, this probably makes or maybe one that had been sense.

Our Quilici Feels Blyleven 'As Good'; Osteen May Be The 'Most Underrated' aim that day was to change this attitude about the place of the swamp, or wetland, in their sense of values. Their field exploration was preceded by a few minutes discussion of the fertility and life potential of these wetlands. It was brought out that many types of life depend on them for at least part of their life, and that without them, types of i amphibians, reptiles, insects and other types of life would disappear. With half a dozen scoops with my net, 1 showed them how lo find what was living in the weedy vegetation along the shore of one of the ponds. In a few minutes we examined and identified quite a variety of aquatic life.

1 don't kid myself that they remembered many names. As they started wielding their own nets and collecting their own specimens, 1 am sure that the importance of wetland areas in the cycle of life began to take on new meaning. This field trip has become an annual affair, looked forward to by all as a chance to get away from their respective desks. The pond has always drained. There were enough pollywogs, and here and there a dragonfly larva, to show lhat the pond had not been completely dried.

Then 1 began to run into little bullheads about two inches long, probably yearlings, so there must have been enough water for adults to spawn and young to survive the summer. In the past we had found shiners and slicklebacks, but never bullheads. With this lead, I looked up Hud Trumble, who has spent more time working on the area than anyone else. He reported that last summer bullhead fishing had boomed, and though there had been bullheads in the pond for years they had never produced much fishing. The bullhead boom is even better this year.

The absence of the formerly abundant aquatic life, taken with the current good bullhead fishing, is probably a good example of cause and effect. If fishing pressure remains high enough on the bullheads, this pond should produce good fishing for some years to come. Tse The Want Ads American League By VITOSTELLINO UPI Sports York In trying -to explain 1 Blyleven's success this year," Baltimore Minnesota Twins' Manager Detroit Frank Quilici made a statement Boston that Blyleven may have dif- Cleveland ficulty living.up lo. "He's been great in the last few games," Quilici said, "he's as good as anyone in the league right now." He certainly looked it Thursday night when he dueled Clyde Wright in a tense struggle before the Twins pulled out a dramatic 1-0 victory over the California Angels when Joe Lis singled in the only run in the last of the ninth. After a a slow start this year, Illyleven now 9-7, is in the groove, and his last five victories have been shutouts.

In his last seven starts, he's pitched 60 1-3 innings and allowed only five earned runs. Blyleven gave up eight hits and walked one. i matched him, allowing seven hits but the Twins finally pulled it out in the last of the ninth when Bobby Darwin singled, stole second and scored on Lis' two-out pinch single. In other AL games, Oakland blanked Chicago, 2-0, New York downed Detroit, 5-1, in a game called by rain after six innings, Baltimore downed Boston, 6-3, and Cleveland routed Milwaukee, 9-1. Thurman Munson and Felipe Alou belted two-run homers off Mickey Lolich to power the Yankees to their rain abbreviated victory over Detroit.

The victory kept the Yankees in first place in the AL East. Pat Dobson took his second win in three decisions since joining the Yanks. Lolich is 7-7. American League East w. 1.

pet. g.b. 3 6 30 2 31 28 .525 lifr 32 32 .500 3 31 32 .492 3'A 25 41 .379 11 West w. t. pet.

g.b. 34 27 .557 -34 28 .548 'A 37 32 .536 35 32 .522 33 31 .516 1 2 Chicago Minnesota Kansas City Oakland California Texas 21 39 .350 12'A Thursday's Results Cleveland 9 Milwaukee 1 Minnesota 1 California 0 Chicago 2 Oakland 0 N.Y. 5 Del 1, 6 rain Baltimore 6 Boston 3 (Only games scheduled) Today's Probable Pitchers (All Times EOT) Texas (Merrill0-2) at Kansas City (Drago7-5), 8:30 p.m. California (May 6-6) at Minnesota (Decker Oakland (Hamilton 2-1) at Chicago (Wood 14-B), 9p.m. Cleveland (Kekich 1-2) at Milwaukee (Colborn 9-2), 8:30 p.m.

Detroit (Perry at New York (Peterson 6-7), 7:30 p.m. Baltimore (Jefferson 0-0 and McNally 5-8) at Boston (Culp 02 and Morel 1-0), 2, 5:30 p.m. Saturday's Games Texas at Kansas City California at Minnesota Oakland at Chicago Cleveland at Milw, night Detroit at New York Baltimore at Boston, night KNICKS SIGN LILLY NEW YORK (UPI) The world champion New York Knicks annouced Thursday the signing of 7-foot Lawrence Lilly from Alabama State. Lilly, who averaged over 18 rebounds and 16 points per game for the past three seasons at Alabama State, was the Knicks sixth-round draft choice this year. MILLS JOINS STAFF ARKADELPHIA, Ark.

(UPI) Bradley Mills defensive coordinator and secondary coach at Wake Forest, has joined the football coaching staff at Henderson Stale College, it was announced Thursday. Stan Bahnsen was touched for 12 hits but still blanked Oakland to give the White Sox the victory that kept them in first place in the AL West. Doubles by Ed Herrmann and John Jeter and Carlos May's single gave Chicago the only runs it needed in the fifth inning. Paul Blair drove in three with a homer and a single off Luis Tiant to pace Baltimore to its victory over Boston. Bob Reynolds got the win in relief as Jim Palmer got knocked out in the fourth.

Buddy Bell drove in three runs with a homer, double and two singles to pace Cleveland to its triumph over fast-fading Milwaukee. It was the Brewers' fourth straight loss after 10 straight wins. George Hendrick hit a homer for the Indians in the six-run third. Gaylord Perry pitched a seven hitler. National League By FRED DOWN UPI Sports Writer Mention the name of Claude Osfeen to the average baseball fan and chance's are he'll say, "who's he." Well, Osteen, a slightly built left-handed pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers may be the most underrated pitcher in baseball.

He isn't among the game's $100,000 pitchers, but he has a 9-3 record this season and San Fran 7 Cincinnati 1 is a two-time 20-game winner. Pittsburgh 2 New York 1 3, the Houston Astros downed the San Diego Padres, 12-2, the San Francisco Giants topped the Cincinnati Reds, 7-1, and Pittsburgh Pirates shaded the New York Mels, 2-1, in other National League games. Bob Gibson tossed an eight- hitter and accounted for the winning run with a solo homer lo give St. Louis its victory over Montreal. Gibson, in winning his fourth straight game, raised his record to 7-6 lo beat Bill Stoneman for the second lime in 1973.

Lee May hit three homers and drove in five rurs for the Astros as Ken Forsch won his seventh game against seven losses. Lee May hit three homers and Cesar Cedeno also homered for Houston as the Astros tagged Bill Greif with his 10th loss. Garry Maddox, Ed Goodson and Gary Mathews each drove in two runs as San Francisco's Tom Bradley won his sixth game and the Giants dealt Jack Billingham his fourth loss against nine wins. The Pirates beat the Mets when Rusty Staub threw behind the runner, enabling Dave Cash to score the winning run after Pittsburgh filled the bases with none out in the ninth. Luke Walker was the winner and Buzz Capra the loser.

National League East w. 1. pel. g.b. Chicago 40 28 .588 -Montreal 31 29 .517 5 St.

Louis 31 33 .484 7 New York 28 33 .459 8'A Philadelphia 29 35 .453 9 Pittsburgh 28 34 .452 9 West w. 1. pet. g.b. Los Angeles 43 25 .632 -San Francisco 41 29 .586 3 Houston 38 31 .551 514 Cincinnati 36 30 .545 6 Atlanta 28 40 .412 15 San Diego 21 47 .309 22 Thursday's Results St.

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